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Unique Stores in Colorado

Colorado’s OddStops move from dense Denver storefronts to fantasy retail and a restored landmark on the Eastern Plains. The Wizard's Chest fills a castle-like building with magic, costumes, makeup, toys, puzzles, games, tournaments, and an escape room. The Learned Lemur takes a darker turn through skeletal specimens, taxidermy, medical objects, circus imagery, local art, and sideshow culture. East in Genoa, World's Wonder View Tower revives a 1926 roadside museum with Colorado art, historic curiosities, local goods, and an observation deck. The directory below carries that variety across every current Colorado profile.

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Oddity Shops & Curiosity Stores in Colorado

Colorado’s shops approach curiosities through science, preservation, art and collecting. Golden Curiosity Shop adds fossils, insects and demonstrations; Rocky Mountain Punk turns bones and plants into artist-made work; Denver’s Learned Lemur, Oddemporium and Terrorium cover medical objects, specimens and preservation; and Littleton’s Vision Comics pairs comics with taxidermy and wet specimens.

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  • Interior of the new downtown Golden Curiosity Shop with natural-history displays and a Van de Graaff demonstration
    CO

    Golden, CO

    Golden Curiosity Shop

    A downtown Golden curiosity shop where taxidermy, skulls, fossils, meteorites, insects, minerals, books, science toys, live axolotls, a T. rex, and a 400,000-volt generator turn retail into a miniature natural-history museum.

    Golden Curiosity Shop mixes the shelves of a natural-history dealer, mineral shop, science store, bookshop, and curiosity cabinet with interactive demonstrations and museum-scale displays inside its new downtown Golden location.

    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesHome goods & furniture+2 more
  • Exterior of Rocky Mountain Punk at its current 305 South Kipling Parkway location in Lakewood
    CO

    Lakewood, CO

    Rocky Mountain Punk Nature Art & Oddities

    A Lakewood artist-run shop where bones, insects, plants, vinyl, vintage finds, crystals, jewelry, antiques, local art, and handmade nature pieces collide.

    Rocky Mountain Punk Nature Art & Oddities combines an artist collective and handmade nature-art studio with a plant shop, record bin, vintage store, crystal-and-jewelry counter, antique shelf, and oddities cabinet.

    Farm & gardenAntiques & vintageBooks, records & mediaArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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  • Wide street-level view of The Learned Lemur's colorful Colfax storefront and mural
    CO

    Denver, CO

    The Learned Lemur

    A Colfax oddities shop where skeletal animals, human teeth, taxidermy, insects, vintage medical objects, circus posters, local art, séances, bone cleaning, tattooing next door, and sideshow culture overlap.

    The Learned Lemur combines an old-school oddities shop and taxidermy service with macabre antiques, large skeletal displays, entomology, vintage photography, local art, classes and events inside a building that also houses tattoo and sideshow culture.

    Antiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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  • Dense interior of The Oddemporium with skeletons, oddities, antiques, and display cases
    CO

    Denver, CO

    The Oddemporium

    A South Broadway shop where poison bottles, medical skeletons, insect shadowboxes, wet specimens, typewriters, horror memorabilia, carnival relics, vintage clothing, jewelry, doll parts, and garden oddities pile together.

    The Oddemporium stretches the antique-store idea into a cabinet of curiosities, mixing medical and pharmaceutical artifacts with insects, horror and carnival objects, vintage fashion, jewelry, old technology, unusual art, wet specimens, and stranger finds.

    Antiques & vintageApparel & footwearArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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  • Exterior of The Terrorium Shop at 4416 Yates Street with its storefront sign visible
    CO

    Denver, CO

    The Terrorium Shop

    A Denver shop where lush houseplants grow beside taxidermy, skulls, insects, wet specimens, preserved flowers, crystals, handmade art, and a classroom devoted to preservation.

    The Terrorium Shop pairs living greenery with preserved nature, combining a plant shop, taxidermy studio, specimen dealer, handmade-art store, crystal-and-gift shop, pet-memorial service, and classroom.

    Farm & gardenArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Farm & gardenArt, crafts & handmadeHome goods & furniture+2 more
  • Interior of the new Littleton Vision Comics & Oddities with comic bins, horror displays, and a large AT-AT
    CO

    Littleton, CO

    Vision Comics & Oddities

    A Littleton comic shop where back issues, action figures, toys, local art, wet specimens, taxidermy, monsters, masks, horror props, and carnival-scale weird décor all occupy the same new storefront.

    Vision Comics & Oddities starts as an old-school comics and collectible shop and then wanders into taxidermy, specimens in jars, horror props, local art, dolls, masks, monsters, and bizarre oversized displays.

    Books, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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  • Wide interior of HORRID with horror-character displays, art, dolls, and merchandise
    CO

    Denver, CO

    HORRID

    A Denver horror shop where bones, art, apparel, books, occult goods, bath products, candles, collectibles, and horror memorabilia share a property with a horror coffee shop, tattooing, movie nights, markets, burlesque, and an event space.

    HORRID anchors Denver's House of Horrors, combining a death-positive horror boutique and artist platform with the neighboring Scr3am & Sugar coffee shop and Creepatorium event space for a retail compound that moves between shopping, tattoos, movies, markets, workshops, and live performance.

    Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
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  • Interior of the Manitou Springs Land of Ozz with goth clothing, band shirts, mannequins, and memorabilia
    CO

    Manitou Springs, CO

    Land of Ozz

    A Manitou Springs shop where vinyl records, books, posters, vintage rock clothing, goth fashion, custom jewelry, games, and adult memorabilia share one Ruxton Avenue storefront.

    Land of Ozz combines the inventory of a record store, bookstore, vintage rock boutique, goth clothing shop, jewelry counter, game store, and memorabilia dealer in one small Manitou Springs stop.

    Books, records & mediaApparel & footwearAntiques & vintageToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
    Books, records & mediaApparel & footwearAntiques & vintage+4 more
  • MHOR R/C Raceway radio-control racing destination in Aurora, CO
    CO

    Aurora, CO

    MHOR R/C Raceway

    MHOR R/C Raceway turns a long-running indoor RC circuit built around organized racing into a visitable hobby destination.

    MHOR R/C Raceway combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Aurora, CO.

    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
    Toys, games & hobbiesOther
  • Exterior of Scavenged Goods at 3229 East Colfax Avenue with the owner at the entrance
    CO

    Denver, CO

    Scavenged Goods

    A Colfax scavenger shop where vintage band shirts, vinyl, VHS, comics, toys, posters, jewelry, taxidermy, storage-unit artifacts, and an entire room of clowns compete for shelf space.

    Scavenged Goods turns one professional picker's finds into a store that jumps between punk vintage, records, dead media, comics, toys, antiques, taxidermy, jewelry, posters, and whatever strange object emerged from the latest storage unit.

    Apparel & footwearBooks, records & mediaAntiques & vintageToys, games & hobbiesHome goods & furnitureGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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  • Wide interior of The Wizard's Chest showing its colorful fantasy-themed retail environment
    CO

    Denver, CO

    The Wizard's Chest

    A 16,000-square-foot Denver fantasy castle where professional magic, hundreds of costumes, theatrical makeup, toys, science kits, puzzles, RPGs, board games, juggling gear, tournaments, and an escape room all live under one roof.

    The Wizard's Chest turns shopping into a fantasy-castle expedition, combining a professional magic shop, massive costume department, theatrical makeup counter, toy store, tabletop-game shop, science-and-skill-toy department, event venue, and escape-room experience.

    Apparel & footwearBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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  • Restored World's Wonder View Tower illuminated at dusk on the eastern Colorado plains
    CO

    Genoa, CO

    World's Wonder View Tower

    A restored 1926 plains tower where a historic roadside museum, immersive Colorado art, surviving curiosities, retro merchandise, local crafts, restored signs, and a climb to the observation deck revive one of the state's strangest highway stops.

    World's Wonder View Tower reopened in 2026 as a restored roadside attraction combining a historic tower climb, museum interpretation, immersive art, surviving pieces of its famously eccentric past, and a gift shop built around Colorado makers and retro roadside culture.

    Art, crafts & handmadeBooks, records & mediaGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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